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Roy Rogers Ad That Will Never Happen Again

Posted by $ Thoritsu 10 years, 7 months ago to Culture
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My mother sent me a link to this Roy Rogers ad, with a note "We'll never see one this this again."

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  • Posted by Herb7734 10 years, 7 months ago
    WHOA!
    When I was a kid I would have bartered my soul for that hat. Mom is right, we'll never see the like again. We are to live in a world of woosies. Even the movies turned the Lone Ranger into a wimp. It makes me want to slap certain people upside the head and shout get real!
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  • Posted by RevJay4 10 years, 7 months ago
    Like so many other things we grew up, which the left decided was not "politically correct". Brings back such great memories. Ah well.
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  • Posted by Esceptico 10 years, 7 months ago
    I love it. This brings back many memories for me. In the 1950s, Roy owned the major part of the Yellow Jacket boat company and I had the great honor at the ripe age of 14 (this is some 60 years ago) racing his boats (he kept the trophies) and going on camping trips in Southern California where he would run the boat as a bunch of us would water ski behind him. He was a fine man, and I have thought of him over the years. Thank you for point this video out.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 10 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Roy Rogers was the biggest thing in the Westerns of that day and predates Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, and many of the others. His merchandise still shows up at antiques shows and sells quite well.

    It may look ridiculous, but is it any more so than anything current movie stars wear?
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Your links have provided me a nostalgic look back at Old Dino Boys World USA.
    Too bad it's as extinct as Jurassic times.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 10 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They'd never do that.
    Not if they ever wanted to work with as a "western" actor again. Roy's fans would never forgive them.
    ;^)
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 10 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Great connection. Did you get things better than caps when you got older?

    Love shooting off fireworks! I made some in high school with model rockets, chemistry stuff, magnesium shavings, etc.
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  • Posted by SaltyDog 10 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Got one for my birthday one year...leg holster and all. I had an uncle who worked at a fireworks factory in Pennsylvania, so I had all the caps I could handle!
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  • Posted by SaltyDog 10 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, I was more of a Josh Randall kind of cowboy myself. (I know...he was a Confederate veteran...)
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  • Posted by SaltyDog 10 years, 7 months ago
    I don't know why ol' Roy would need that...the bad guys would take one look at his boots and die laughing.
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